The New York Times’ Jia Lynn Yang on the Ebb and Flow of Immigration

editor at , Jia Lynn Yang is the author of a timely new book, (W.W. Norton & Co.). The book begins at a dark moment in American immigration policy, when a restrictive law ended a long period of relatively open borders and effectively stopped mass movement to the United States for the next 40 years. It tells the story of the decadeslong process that led the U.S. to begin accepting foreigners once again. Yet almost nobody